Lease, Wilburton, Cambridgeshire

Sir John Coell, knight, of Depden, Suff., for 5/- leases to Robt. Mingay, esq., of Ely, for one year...to convert use into possession a messuage lying at the end of the Dooles in Wilburton wherein John Sutton lately dwelt, and 5 acres of fen land called the Dooles abutting upon Skeg Fen and S. upon R. Ouze and another 10 acres and that part of the Dooles late in occupation of Haynes Barley esq. and now of William and John Sancty (or Sucty) abutting upon the Dooles late Master George Towers on W. and all other lands of Sir. J. Coell lying within...Wilburton...Signed by Jo. Coell, with seal attached. Witnessed by John Stafford, John Wickes, and William Martindale.

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Purchased from H.R. Moulton, 151 Fleet Street, London, E.C. 4, 27 March 1922

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